{"title": "Shelley Niro: In Her Lifetime", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Hales Gallery", "address": "West 20th Street 547, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/indigenous"], "description": "\"Shelley Niro: In Her Lifetime\" is a solo exhibition of photographic works at Hales Gallery, with an opening reception on the evening of 24 September. It features the work of Shelley Niro, a multi-disciplinary artist of the Turtle Clan of the Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) Nation from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Spanning several decades, the show explores memory, identity, and contemporary Indigenous life through image, text, and ornament, centering the series In Her Lifetime (1992) and For Fearless and Other Indians (1998). Humor is at the heart of Niro's practice, questioning colonial narratives and stereotypical depictions of Indigenous identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shelley-niro-in-her-lifetime-52967/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a151669a729fc5c60c0dd062f51e04799a1afcde9937cc8551e95bed02599888-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Hales Gallery", "address": "West 20th Street 547, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "ERIN SHIRREFF NEW WORK", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sikkema Jenkins & Co.", "address": "West 22nd Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "Erin Shirreff: New Work is a solo exhibition of new photographic works shown in the back galleries. The Canadian artist Erin Shirreff, born in 1975 and living in Montréal, explores how the experience of a material object is lost or gained when it becomes an image. The show brings together collaged archival pigment prints titled Ctlg, built from layered photographs of her earlier sculptures to form imagined, gravity-defying forms, alongside brown-, purple-, pink- and blue-toned cyanotype photograms that create a kind of two-dimensional sculpture on paper. These works both rework and inspire her sculptural practice, including new Corten steel sculptures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/erin-shirreff-new-work-55889/", "official_url": "https://www.smjny.com/ex20261030erinshirreff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1fa57d96ab91f7f458418a1bf084c16f2d13c6dce211a5df7c478110c30c40c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. A free opening reception with the artists takes place on September 16, 2026, from 6 to 8 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-land-54592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89f07abb0b0e5e5b62b92bea09854aac9cfd2c7b7d33e152d84010df6bd0ccec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Renée Cox: Take A Good Look", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Ethan Cohen Gallery", "address": "West 19th Street 251, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/identity"], "description": "Take A Good Look is a solo exhibition at Ethan Cohen Gallery's Chelsea location, opening with a reception and running through October 31. The Jamaican-American photographer Renée Cox shows works from the early 1990s to the present, tracing over three decades of her photography, self-representation, and the politics of the image. Placing her own body at the center of pictures she has historically been excluded from, she reworks visual languages of Western art, Christianity, colonialism, and popular culture, from Yo Mama's Last Supper to the Queen Nanny of the Maroons and Soul Culture series. The show opens alongside the gallery's solo presentation of Cox at The Armory Show in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/renee-cox-take-a-good-look-52514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/edc4eed0eab65484f2a348c349f4d3595a1eaab21a69e2964c03adbda605468e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Incoming 2026 Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photography and moving image works by first-year students, on view in the Clive Davis NYU Gallery. Curated by the students themselves, it brings their individual practices into dialogue with the frameworks of their DPI first-year seminar. The works move across personal narrative, cultural memory, identity and the shifting relationship between images and reality. It is supported by Professors Rose DeSiano and Andrea Geyer along with TAs Jackie Abhulimen and Nicole Motta.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-incoming-2026-exhibition-79231/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Author Talk with Hettie Judah", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Stand4 Gallery and Community Center", "address": "78th Street 414, 11209 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "14.64", "price_to": "14.64", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-enter-the-art-world-after-tickets-2003944603253?aff=ebdsshios&sg=39071ed1a609fb330882651154f6ebaa2b5221fdad92c62abe4cde7833fa5ce984727752e83278ab0cbd26c3c0aa589d1b5eb408a5ae8b40eb22a9211f849d7326b2c425c533743bb9b1877b", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "An 'After Session' author talk with Hettie Judah at Stand4 Gallery, held alongside the exhibition 'And I am aware of my heart, it opens and closes'. Mother Creatrix Collective artists open with short presentations on their work in the show, including entering or reentering the art world after becoming caregivers. Hettie Judah then leads an open, hour-long conversation with questions about the art world, her work, and navigating a creative life. She will sell and sign copies of her new book, 'How to Enter the Art World... AFTER a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust', and refreshments follow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah-79604/", "official_url": "https://www.mothercreatrixcollective.com/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f4451de70eca7a0b331b5d249d5f5226b2bad39b97bc710aef862936ddf9d4b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Like everything alive that we try to hold forever", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pratt Manhattan Gallery", "address": "144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "\"Like everything alive that we try to hold forever\" is an art exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, an exhibition space on 14th Street in New York City. Curated by Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson, it brings together seven artists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Diane Borsato, Stephanie Dinkins, Bridget Moser, Sondra Perry, and Miya Turnbull. The works explore how human bodies exist in relation to non-human objects and how the collection, consumption, and contextualization of these objects shape our understanding of self and others. Organized by Esker Foundation and toured by Independent Curators International, the show uses objects and avatars to examine the identities and biases embedded in science, technology, and museum collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/like-everything-alive-that-we-try-to-hold-forever-54997/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb835cb6ffe02570170039fe74401004b5970d28503aee9cbd9af624de5a7826-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nicola Costantino – Where Time Stands Still", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "L'Space Gallery", "address": "West 19th Street 524, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photographs, tapestries, and glazed ceramic works titled 'Where Time Stands Still.' It presents the art of Nicola Costantino, an Argentine multidisciplinary artist from Rosario who lives and works in Buenos Aires, whose work for over three decades has challenged conventions of beauty, identity, desire, and the human body. On show are pieces such as Dianas Dobles 1 and 2, NaturalezaMuerta, Romano, and painted ceramic tiles. She represented Argentina at the 55th Venice Biennale and her work is held in collections including MoMA and MALBA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nicola-costantino-where-time-stands-still-53655/", "official_url": "https://www.lspacegallery.com/nicola-constantino.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2580179fcc9a0d31dd3533407c810b44b67d430e8ea3eba7cadaac09e5a59c5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Stand4 Gallery and Community Center", "address": "78th Street 414, 11209 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/parenting"], "description": "An exhibition titled 'And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes' running from October 24 to December 5, 2026. It is an exhibition by Mother Creatrix Collective, inspired by Sylvia Plath's poem Tulips. The featured artists explore transformation, grief, and empathy in motherhood, showing the link between their identities and their children's, with approaches from including their children in their work to community-based art and activism as caregiving as social practice. The show also includes artistic collaborations inspired by childbirth and parenting experiences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/and-i-am-aware-of-my-heart-it-opens-and-closes-79603/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "\"Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes\" is an exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist's recent ceramic sculptures and prints, shown in the museum's Cheng Gallery. It inaugurates Solo Artist Projects (SAP), a MOCA initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work by artists of Chinese descent living and working in New York City. Shen's practice is marked by an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, undergoing construction and decay. Her details and motifs open up conversations cutting across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hilda-shen-their-landscapes-54046/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aed91fbf6df010c700d9d8fe8be0220be86865d046df4f0468de728928cc5d61-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Meet Me in the Forest", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/forest", "art"], "description": "Meet Me in the Forest is an exhibition of twenty-one contemporary works spanning paintings, textiles, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, and installations. It invites visitors into forests, gardens, and natural worlds artists create, exploring the layered relationships between nature and humankind, where beauty, danger, and humanity converge. The show draws on the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum's collection, new acquisitions, and loans, and features artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ebony G. Patterson, and Ana Mendieta. It is organized by the museum's curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and assistant curator of glass Linnea Seidling, with works lent in part by Gladstone Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meet-me-in-the-forest-66536/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca1b291a88beb0e39c480b065c8d0a3e612f5bd0a2181948ac02915d3e33562f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Calida Rawles: Parallax", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Calida Rawles: Parallax\" is an exhibition of new paintings at the Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York. The artist, Calida Rawles, known for merging hyperrealism with poetic abstraction, explores parallax: how changing one's point of view changes the way we see the same moment. The show centers on three paintings based on photographs she took of her youngest daughter in a pool, capturing the same moment from shifting positions and perspectives. Rawles situates Black subjects within fluid environments, using water to bring questions of identity, memory, healing, and belonging into focus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/calida-rawles-parallax-53541/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9882832e3b1c7f8d772755f1a48b0964a20fda3a5b0e97e7df64b0a44eb29760-2000.webp"}, {"title": "To My Best Friend", "start": "2026-01-23T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/art-collection"], "description": "An exhibition of works from the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, presented in the Kim and Jim Pallotta Gallery. It draws on more than 50 artworks that longtime friends and supporters Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté helped bring into the ICA Collection, highlighting formal and material experimentation by artists including Laura Owens, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Olga de Amaral, and Sarah Sze, and is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/to-my-best-friend-66851/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19f2d15ba5c0054a69c0eafe188997f34a0400c9f78cbe41c5e6cf06db524c22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A breath and a breath and a breath and its outlines", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "NARS Foundation", "address": "46th Street 201, 11220", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"A breath and a breath and a breath and its outlines\" is a group exhibition in the NARS Foundation's Main Gallery, running from October 9 to November 4, 2026. It brings together work by Olivia Abächerli, Andrea Fortmann, and Katrin Keller, curated by Katrin Sperry. The three artists explore self-reflection, precarity, the silencing and amplifying of voices, and how these themes interconnect. Through repetition, juxtaposition, and resonance, their works pose questions as physically tangible gestures, offering a subjective perspective on the instability of our existence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-breath-and-a-breath-and-a-breath-and-its-outlines-54075/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4990eb75fee9867a18a7218737f82f8e92c7135e94768621591f6fcb3d792482-2000.webp"}]}